Optimizing resource allocation for breast cancer prevention and care among Hong Kong Chinese women

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4394-4403

  Wong, Irene O L ^a   Tsang, Janice W H ^b   Cowling, Benjamin J ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cancer care; Chinese; cost effectiveness analysis; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HONG KONG; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 84865963135     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27448     Document Type: Article

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